Hi Bill, Try Avast!
https://www.avast.com/en-us/index#mac <https://www.avast.com/en-us/index#mac> Rick > On Feb 10, 2019, at 6:04 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Problem solved, but first: > I found that BitDefender kept deleting the “Safe Application” setting for > “Livecode Business 9.0.2”, so it blocked writing to the Devo Prefs file. The > OS wouldn’t let me delete the library files associated with BitDefender. I > also found that there were un-fixable errors in my boot drive, which is an > SSD drive. I wanted to delete all anti-virus files and CleanMyMac, which > contained both version 3 and X. I also needed to deal with the boot drive > disc errors, which DiskUtility couldn’t fix. I was going to have to > completely erase and reformat the boot drive. Fortunately, my boot drive was > still functioning mostly normally. > > First I booted my computer from an external drive that I had created a couple > of weeks ago using SuperDuper. Then I deleted all Library files related to > BitDefender and CleanMyMac. I think I got all of them, but may have missed > something. > > Next I created a disc image big enough to hold all of my boot drive content > (on an external drive), so I could restore it after reformatting. I used > SuperDuper to copy my boot drive content to the disc image. Then I > reformatted my original boot drive and after that, used SuperDuper to copy > the disc image contents back to my original boot drive. > > I checked that the Devo prefs were being updated correctly, and yes, they > were. Problem solved. > > I’m a bit afraid to leave off a virus protection program though. Anybody have > recommendations? > > Best, > Bill > > >> On Feb 10, 2019, at 6:55 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Guess I waited until the right time to go from 10.12 to 10.14 :grin: >> I’ll be doing that upgrade in the next couple weeks. >> >> Thanks, >> Brian >> On Feb 10, 2019, 7:49 AM -0500, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: >>> Little story: Yesterday, early the morning, I was on 10.4.2. "Sadly" I >>> thought Navigator would not save preferences. Went back to work, thinking >>> the IDE has lost some globals, or messages, it crashes for me all the time >>> now, at least once a day. No point sending in reports, Panos says "cannot >>> reproduce..." >>> >>> Besides, two other programs unrelated, will suddenly "wink out" I say that, >>> because, you may be doing something else, the application is not >>> experiencing any "user operations". Suddenly it crashes and you get a crash >>> report. It's as if a gremlin in the background is issuing a "Kill process." >>> Although it also happens in the IDE, especially when dragging a control >>> from the tool bar onto a stack. I always save, hold my breath now when >>> create a button, drag it the tools pallet "Oh no! the IDE crashed, >>> again...sigh" Now, that seems unrelated... but >>> >>> Not paying much attention update notices. Busy getting work done. I hard to >>> reboot. Ha! big update got installed. OS X 10.4.3 >>> >>> Now, this morning Navigator prefs are saved.... Yay! Having done nothing >>> else, one is tempted to say, it was a "mysterious OS thing" >>> >>> I never had time to investigate... Rick: I'll try Avast >>> >>> BR >>> >>> Bill wrote: So I used diskutility to repair the system drive, then updated >>> the os to 10.14.3. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
